Combination placket-closer and skirt-supporter.



PATENTED FER-26, 1907.

I W, BQBIOHHOLTZ. COMBINATION PLAGKET CLOSER AND-SKIRT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED KAY 28. 1906.

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WILLIAM BELL EIOHHOLTZ, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COMBINATION PLACKET-CLOSER AND SKIRT-SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed May 28,1906. Serial No. 319,172.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HOLTZ, a citizen of the United ing at New Orleans, in

BELL EICH States, residthe parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combination Placket-Closer and Skirt-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combination placket-closer and skirt-supporter, the object of the invention being to improveupon the present devices by supplying a double fastening means, as will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists of the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in I which Fi ure 1 is a detail perspective view show j ing the various parts of the device assembled in position, the parts being detached from each other. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastening member carried by the waistband. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the said member. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of an inner end portion of the skirt-band, showing the fast ning member connected thereto. Fig; 5 is a similar perspective view showing the outer face of the skirt-band, the fastening member being shown partly in full lines and partly in dotted lines. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the opposite end portion of the skirt-band, showing the fastening member cooperating with the member showing in Figs. 4 and 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the fastening member shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a face view of the last-mentioned member.

In these drawings, A represents a piece of straight wire, which adjacent each end is bent downwardly and upwardly to form depending hook members A, and the free end portions of the wire are bent to form eyes A The eyes A and the straight member A are stitched to the waistband, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The fastening member B is secured to one end of the skirt-band adjacent the placket-opening, and the member B consists of one piece of wire comprising a straight member B, arranged longitudinally upon the skirt-band and adjacent its upper edge and bent at each end to form essentially U shaped members B which project above the upper edge of the band. The outer side members B of each of the U-shaped members B are bent in the same direction and parallel to the straight member B, as shown 1 at B, and at the free end of each member B the wire of which the device is composed is bent to form loops'B and B, respectively, and the wire is then carried back from each of said loops, as shown at B parallel to the member B, and the free ends of the said wire are bent to Iwl'l'l'l eyes B The entire member is secured to the skirt-band by stitches, as shownv at Fig. 4.

It will be obvious from Figs. 4 and 5 that the loop B projects beyond the end of the skirt-band, and the members B and B adj acent the loop B, are passed through the band from the inner to the outer side, so that the loop B rests upon the outer side of the band, while the remainder of the device, with the exception of the projecting portions B and a part of the loop B rests upon the inner side of the band. Upon the opposite end portion of the skirt-band I arrange a fastening member to cooperate with the member B, and this member comprises a straight longitudinally-arranged wire member C, which is bent adj acent its ends to form oppositely-arranged loops 0 while the end portions are bent back to form hooks O each of said hook members extending in the same direction and in the same horizontal plane. In use the bow portions B are engaged with the hook members A, and the hook members O carried by the member 0, are then brought overinto engagement, respectively, with the loops B and B. It will be obvious, therefore, that a skirt is supported by the U-shaped members B which engages the hook member A, secured upon the waistband, and the skirt is also doubly secured by the locking of the hook members 0 in the loops B and 13.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the kind described comprising hooks carried by a waistband, a fastening device comprising a wire member secured adjacent one end of a skirt-band and provided with upwardly-extending U-shaped members projecting above the upper edge of the skirt-band to engage the hooks of the waistband, loops carried by the said fastening member, and alining hook members carried by the other end of the skirt-band adapted to simultaneously engage the loops.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a fastening member attached to the inner face of a skirt-band and having U-shaped portions extending above said skirt-b and and having longitudinally-arranged members of the band, a longitudinally-arranged Wire each of which carries a loop, one of said loops member carried by the outer side members of w projecting beyond the end of the band the each of said U-shaped members, one of said other loop resting upon the outer face of said 4 last-mentioned members extending through band, the members carrying the said loop the Waistband, a loop carried by the latter passing through the band, the fastening member and arranged upon the side of the member carried upon the opposite end porband opposite the U-shaped members, and 2 5 tion of the said skirt-band and having hook the other of the last-mentioned longitudimembers adapted to engage'respectively, the l nally-arranged members carrying a loop prosaid loops, and hook members carried by a l jecting beyond the end of the band, and Waistband in position to be engaged by the means carried respectively by a Waistband U-shaped portions of the first-mentioned fasand the other end portion of the skirt-band o tening member. for engaging respectively the U-shaped mem- 3. In a device of the kind described a fasbers and the loops. tening member comprising a Wire secured WILLIAM BELL EIOHHOLTZ.

longitudinally upon the inner face of a skirt- Vvitnesses:

and, U-shaped portions formed at the ends I EDWARD J. THELBORGER, of said Wire, and projecting above the edge I DAVID LEvY. 

